English Level 2 Exam - Tuesday 16th November, am!



Analyse Extended Written Texts - Tu, A Novel, by Patricia Grace



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Your chapter notes are available in Firstclass - I won't be putting them all up here. If you are missing paper copies print them at school.



  • The four documents that you made about the major characters.








And some links - this is another level 2 class's notes - handy :-)

Here are some exemplars excellence merit and achieved

Here's an academic (i.e. university style) essay on Tu and the Maori at war.

This is a review from the NZ Herald.




And, just in case you want to get some more historical background (to get those Excellence essays really flowing!)
Here's the official site of the 28th Maori Battalion.

Right - 'march, march, march to victory!'



Analyse Visual or Oral Text - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Milos Forman

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There is a huge amount of content about the film available online, I'll just give you a few links here.
This is the trailer - you can watch pretty much the whole thing on youtube should you feel the need.



The powerpoint presentations you made are in our class First Class page - access them there or send them home to yourself.

Here are some the notes from in class and a few other bits and bobs.


The key links for the exam are these ones...

Exam papers: 2009, 2008 2007
And exemplars: Excellence Merit Achievement

And I'll be putting up more links for the film soon.



Analyse Unfamilar Text


Coming soon!